Christi O’Connor (Lili Shri) began her love affair with music shortly after leaving a career in medicine. After serving as an addiction medicine doctor in Portland during the 2020 pandemic, she intentionally moved away from Western Medicine in search of healing practices that are curative. She found herself submerged in the world of yoga, meditation, and subsequent artistic creation in order to preserve her own mental and physical well-being during personal & professional crisis. She began writing her first album “Falling Up and Down” (in production) in the early upward swing of a long, hard-fought battle for her life after complete ego dissolution.

Her music tells the story of the ups and downs experienced in the finding of her faith during the dissolving of her career, social status, partnership, friendships, family network, and social group. Her yoga class is the sequence she used to heal her physical body - ridding it of hopelessness and infusing it with health, happiness, and vitality. Through hardship, she learned to reconnect with her artistic abilities, her love of people, her role as a healer, and her soul, resulting in an unshakeable connection to unseen forces of raw creativity. Her intention is to channel & deliver healing and soul-connection through the sharing of her creative process. Her purpose is to serve & support others who are called to get out by going through, using artistic cultivation to promote individual and collective healing in this difficult (but liberating) process.

Christi appreciates a wide variety of genres including folk, classic rock, jazz, R&B, and classical. She brings covers to life with her own unique style, tailoring set lists to accommodate a wide variety of venues and events. She brings her original work to the stage during music-focused performances and loves to tell her story of redemption through the canvas of sound. Her work is a reflection of a life-long commitment to the creative act that saved her life over and over again: making music.